Horn-support.



No. 663,537. v Patented Dec. ll, I900.

W. E. FURNISS.

HORN SUPPORT.

(Application filed Apr. 12, 1900) (No Model.)

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IVILLIAIWI E. FURNISS, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO FREDERICK H. PRATT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HORN-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,537, dated December 11, 1900.

Application filed April 12, 1900. Serial No. 12,651. \No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. FURNISS, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Horn-Supports, of which the followingis aspecification.

This invent-ion consists in an improved folding crane adapted to support the horn or sound-amplifier of a talking-machine or a IO similar article.

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a rear elevation, partly in section, showing my invention in use. Fig. 2 represents an elevation of the crane in folded form.

Fig. 3 represents a detail perspective View of one of the hinge-joints.

The same reference characters represent the same parts wherever used in the drawings.

1 designates a suitable base or stand, to

which the supporting-crane is shown as removably and adjustably attached. 2 is the upright or vertical stem of the crane, and 3 is the neck, laterally bowed or looped in the plane of stem 2 and having at its upper end a hook 5, by means of which the supported article may be suspended. In the drawings a horn or trumpet 4, such as is commonly employed to amplify the sound from a talkingmachine, is shown as suspended from the hook 5 and occupying the space provided by laterally bowing or looping the neck 3.

Instead of rigidly connecting the neck 3 of the crane to the stem 2, which is the common practice in making supports of this character,

I connect the two by a pivotal joint at 6, so that when the crane is not in use it may be folded intoa reduced compass, and, furthermore, I also make the neck itself in sections a lower section 7 and an upper section 8 4o pivot-ed together at 9, the two sections of the neck straightening out when the crane is folded into its reduced form, as shown in Fig. 2.

The hinge-joints between the stem and neck and between the parts or sections of the neck may permissibly be constructed as shown in Fig. 3, which illustrates the joint between the two parts of the neck. In this construction a reduced or flattened lug 10 is formed on one of the neck parts, as 7, and two cars 11 11 are formed on the other part8, the said two cars embracing the lug 10 and the pintle 9 passing through said ears and lug. Part 7 is also formed with shoulders 12 adjacent to the axis of the hinge-joint, upon which shoul ders the part 8 rests to limit the downward movement of said part 8 when the neck of the crane is operatively positioned. Part 8 is thus supported upon part 7 at the joint between the two. A similar construction may be adopted for the hinge-joint between part 66 7 of the neck and stem 2, the latter being shown as provided near the axis of the hinge with a shoulder 13, on which part 7 is supported in operative position. It is to be noted that the vertical line of suspension from hook 5 falls to the left or rear of pivot-point 6, so

as to prevent the pivoted neck 3 from overbalancing to the right of the stem when the weight of the horn is upon it.

In Fig. 2 the relative positions occupied by. 70 the parts of the crane when folded are shown. The parts of the neck by turning at pivot 9 are then brought su bstantiallyinto alinement with each other and are folded over parallel to the stem 3 by turning about the pivot 6. When in this form it is readily seen that the crane occupies a much reduced space or compass, enabling it to be easily packed or stowed, and thereby effecting the object of the invention.

The device can very quickly be brought from its folded condition to its expanded or operative condition, and vice versa.

I claim 1. A crane or support for talking-machine horns and similar articles, comprising an upright stern, and a laterally looped or bowed neck pivotally jointed to the upper end of said stem and adapted to support the horn by suspension from its upper end, said neck consisting of sections pivotally jointed together, and the whole being adapted to fold together into a reduced compass.

2. A crane or support for talking-machine horns and similar articles, comprising an up- 3 right stem, and a laterally looped or bowed neck pivotally jointed to the upper end of said stem and adapted to support the horn being so related as to fold into a reduced comby suspension from its upper end, said neck pass, with the two sections of the neck in suhconsisting of a lower section and an upper stant-ial alinement parallel to the stem. IO section pivotally jointed together, the stem In testimony whereof I have aifixed my sigand sections of the neck havingat their joints nature in presence of two Witnesses.

coacting abutmen ts whereby each superposed WILLIAM E. FURNISS. part is supported at the joint in operative Witnesses:

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